Pittsboro, NC – Below is the letter Chatham County resident Mia Munn submitted to the Chatham County school board members prior to their special committee meeting on Tuesday evening. I’m not going to make public comments tonight, but I wanted…
By Lindsay Marchello Raleigh, NC – Fewer than six weeks from the 2020 general election, two of the five members of the State Board of Elections walked off the job. Republicans are disgusted. They say they were misled by information…
By Kevin Roche The CDC issued an early paper on what has happened with children returning to school. The answer is what the research would tell you to expect, not much. (CDC Report) The study runs through September 19. Children…
By John Trump Raleigh, NC – Gov. Roy Cooper may announce the reopening of private bars, as early as Friday. But at severely limited capacity. Cooper is expected Wednesday, Sept. 30, to move the state into Phase 3 of his…
By Kari Travis Raleigh, NC – Governor Roy Cooper has promised $445 million state tax dollars to corporations so far in 2020. At the same time, he’s kept a large swath of North Carolina’s small businesses closed under his COVID-19…
By Kevin Roche From the CDC and the Wall Street Journal story, this chart shows excess deaths in certain categories, where the blue bars rise above the trend line averaging prior years. Note especially the impact isolation is having on…
By John Hood Raleigh, NC – The post of lieutenant governor is a constitutional office in North Carolina, and the only one empowered to exercise both legislative and executive powers. Those powers are rather limited, however — casting a vote…
By Douglas Sedlak Pittsboro, NC – A month ago our Chatham County officials created and approved a second health crisis. They prefer you discover the ramifications later. COVID-19 is the first health crisis. This second health crisis is a condition called…
By Julie Havlak Raleigh, NC – North Carolina received a “C” for poor fiscal management from the national nonprofit Truth in Accounting. But the Tar Heel State is doing much better than the report suggests. North Carolina’s poor grade ignores a…
By Kevin Roche This is a chart that was put together based on cases reported for various types of schooling. Thanks to Twitter. You can see that in-person has the lowest rate, closely followed by remote, and hybrid is the…